Historical Vocabulary

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Absolutism

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Complete and unrestricted power in government

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Atlantic Slave Trade

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The selling of African men, women and children as slaves in North and South America by Europeans from the 15th to the 19th century

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Capital

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Money or property that is used to start or operate a business; money or property that a person or a business owns

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Circumnavigate

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To travel all the way around (something) in a ship, airplane, etc.

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Columbian Exchange

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The widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology and ideas between the Western and Eastern hemispheres during the 15th and 16th centuries

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Commercial Revolution

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A period of European economic expansion from the 13th to the 18th centuries based on trade, colonialism and mercantilism

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Divine Right

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The belief that a king or a queen receives the right to rule directly from God, not from the people

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Encomienda System

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A large tract of land in the Americas, along with the Indians who lived on it, given by the Spanish government to conquistadors or colonists; the European owner was also granted the labor of those Indians which made it a type of communal slavery

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Encounter

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To meet someone without expecting or intending to

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English Bill of Rights

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An Act of the English Parliament passed in 1689 which guaranteed basic civil rights to English citizens; it also limited some of the powers of the monarch